Critic Reviews

Metascore

Combines big laughs, a big heart and thoroughly winning characters to become the first big surprise of the fall season.

80

Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

Why, in our drum-thumping, ritually trumpeting time, did so little fanfare precede the opening of a movie with so much to recommend it? This is grand entertainment.

75

Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

There is a kind of music to their conversations, now a lullaby, now a march, now a requiem, now hip-hop, and they play with one another like members of an orchestra. The movie's so good to listen to, it would even work as an audio book.

75

San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle

Here, as in the "Friday" movies, the jokes are big and rude and vulgar and very funny.

75

New York Daily NewsJami Bernard

Best of all, and worth the price of admission, is Cedric the Entertainer.